Nalanda boy awarded 3-year imprisonment in murder case

BIHARSHARIF: The Nalanda Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) on Tuesday awarded 3 years imprisonment to a juvenile in a murder case. But the JJB principal judge, Manvendra Mishra, absolved him of the rape charge because of lack of evidence.
Assistant public prosecutor (APP) Rajesh Pathak said the accused, who belongs to Tharthari police station area in Nalanda, had strangled his minor beloved and threw her body in a nearby pond on August 4.The APP said the accused called her near the pond in the wee hours of August 4 and strangled her soon after she told him that her parents had fixed her marriage somewhere else and they were going to Delhi the next day.
The mother of the deceased, in her complaint, said they found her missing at around 1am on August 4. Later, her body was found floating in the village pond around 12 noon. The accused was arrested on August 21.
He said the court rejected the defence claims that the relatives of the deceased themselves killed her and threw her body in the pond after they learnt about her relation with the village boy.
The JJB principal judge directed the superintendent of Nalanda reformatory home for boys to immediately shift him to the special home at Patna. He also directed the superintendent of Patna-based special home to take care of the juvenile’s education and skill development training and submit in his court his periodical report of development every six month.